Visiting the Margins. INnovative CULtural ToUrisM in European peripheries (INCULTUM)

The INCULTUM project aims to further sustainable social, cultural, and economic development in marginal and peripheral areas of Europe via cultural tourism. The main focus of the project is the implementation of innovative participatory approaches across ten diverse pilot cases. As part of the INCULTUM project computer-based algorithms have been used to scrap large unique data on tourism flows from Tripadvisor for ten European countries (Albania, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden). 

Recommended citations: 
*Borowiecki, Karol J., Pedersen, Maja U. and Palomeque, Marco (2024). Putting the Periphery on the Map: Tourism Activity measured with Big Data. Work in progress.
*Borowiecki, Karol J., Pedersen, Maja U., Mitchell, Sara B. and Alam Khan, Shahedul (2023). Navigating Cultural Landscapes: Approaches to Data Collection and Analysis in Tourism. In Visiting the Margins: Innovative Cultural Tourism in European Peripheries, Chapter 5. Routledge. 

The data is presented in Borowiecki et al. (2023, 2024), together with a presentation of validity tests, to show the validity of using the collected data as a measure of tourism. Furthermore, the data is also presented and described in the Data Manual and Description - INCULTUM (2024), by Sara Mitchell, Martin Hørlyk Kristensen, Maja Pedersen and Karol J. Borowiecki, and in a report about the impact of INCULTUM, prepared by the same authors.


Below are descriptions of each of the data modules provided along with the data manual:

ATTRACTIONS data module (attr.csv): Consists of a list of all tourist attractions listed on the respective country's *Things to do* page on Tripadvisor at the time of data scraping.

REVIEWS data module (reviews_XX.csv): Consists of reviews in different "XX" languages for each respective attraction. 

USERS data module (users.csv): Contains basic information on the users who wrote at least one review for at least one attraction in our sample of countries.

TRAVEL HISTORY data module (travelHistory.csv): Contains data on reviews written by users included in the user profile module.

For further details, refer to the Data Manual and Description. 

The Project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement no. 101004552

Contact person: Professor Karol Jan Borowiecki (kjb@sam.sdu.dk).